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6 February 2008 - 4:00am — Christopher Wright
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Help Desk, by Christopher B. Wright
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MARK: So what happens now?

VIKTOR SCHRECK: Now our litigation database evaluates the target's phone records and maps out relationships between specific calls and potential lawsuits. When it's finished we'll take the highest-rated correlations and use them as the basis of our lawsuit.

MARK: A database. You're not doing any of the research yourself?

VIKTOR SCHRECK: In the old days I'd have an associate do all the research for me, but modern technology allows me to replace a $75,000 a year grunt-worker with a much cheaper alternative.

MARK: I had no idea.

VIKTOR SCHRECK: Everything is automated these days, Mark. After ranking the various options the computer then dumps the highest-ranking option into a template which is automatically sent to the court. Sometimes I don't even see the target's name until after the lawsuit has been filed.

COURT OFFICIAL: Mr. Schreck? Viktor Schreck?

VIKTOR SCHRECK: Over here.

COURT OFFICIAL: You're being sued by Ubersoft Corporation for violating their intellectual property. I'm going to need you to sign a few documents for me.

VIKTOR SCHRECK: Occasionally this process can have unexpected consequences.

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Comments

I thought nobody in the room

6 February 2008 - 1:03pm — ccanni1028

I thought nobody in the room could be picked as a victim of the lawsuit.

Ah but that depends on you're definition of "room"

6 February 2008 - 3:37pm — Anonymous (not verified)

Ah but that depends on you're definition of "room". You see Chris W. has left some ambiguity on the subject matter for where is this taking place exactly? We cannot be sure that this conversation takes place in a "room" so to speak because if it were a "room" where's Victor's desk or Mark's desk? You can safety assume for a fact that this conversation takes place in the hallway because how would that FBI looking guy come in without have to slide in sideway like in previous strips?
You have to realize that they have left the original "room" of safety and once out you're looking like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti. The predators/lawyers can smell you a mile away, "whoever that guy is I'm going to sue him!"
Yeah...

Question is...

6 February 2008 - 5:54pm — MuseUnchained

Did Victor leave the room before or after the name was chosen? I would have thought that he would have been in there until the name came up but this suggests that he stepped out of it (Alice was the only person that was exempt from having to be in the room at the time of the search).

touché

7 February 2008 - 1:43am — ccanni1028

Good point, Muse.